Opera House Fire Marks End of Bromage Row’s Peak
A historic Co manche Opera House fire in 1912 destroyed the building with losses totaling about 50 000 as flames and smoke overwhelmed the wooden second story. Rescue attempts included a fire alarm triggered by schoolboy G Preston Tate and fire police stationed to control crowds. The incident followed a prior era of horse drawn apparatus and a new bandmaster in 1912, with the Armistice Day site later showing only a stone wall remaining.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank
John
E. C. Vander Stratten
San Antonio
Opera House
G. Preston Tate
Waldo Carson
John Meyers
Graham
Onera House
W. M. Carroll’s Drug
Alexander's Grocery
Knigits of Pythias
Express Office
Telephone Exchange
Hoff and Harris Electric Co
Jud McCarty
E. P. Hall
Comanche
Federal Land Bank Meeting Held in Houston
Wm. G. Bishop of Goldthwaite attended the Federal Land Bank of Houston annual stockholders meeting in Houston with 450 attendees from 68 Texas associations. President Herbert H. Decker and speakers Edwin A. Jaenke Nat S. Rogers addressed long term farm loans and regional operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. G. Bishen
Goldthwaite
Houston
Federal Land Bank of Houston
Federal Land Bank Associations
Texas
Herbert H. Decker
Edwin A. Jaenke
Farm Credit Administration
Nat S. Rogers
First City National Bank of Houston
American Bankers Association
Federal Land Bank Association of Brownwood
Joe Weedon
Gail Dudley
George P. Burns
J. H. Burton
B. E. Baird
Wm. G. Bishop
W. E. Burleson
John Robertson
Divorce by Publication in Comanche County Texas
Public citation issued toward Billy Narve Myers in Sharon Myers v Myers filed April 21 1969 in the Comanche County District Court. The suit seeks divorce with no children or community property and alleges cruelty and incompatibility. appearance required by first Monday after forty two days from issuance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Billy Narve Myers
District Court of
Comanche County
Comanche
Sharon Myers
Ben B. Wilhelm
School Menus Week A Summary
School meals listed for Monday through Friday with items like ham chunks spinach yams corn bread and cake. Tuesday includes hot dogs fries pickles milk and raisin cobbler. Wednesday features turkey dressing peas cranberry sauce milk bread and fruit cup. Thursday offers steak gravy potatoes green beans celery sticks and ice cream. Friday is holiday with a teacher meeting.
Texas Turnpike Authority Seeks Six Toll Road Studies
The Texas Turnpike Authority proposes preliminary studies for six toll road projects including a Dallas area to Houston freeway and a Dallas Arlington corridor to the airport. Feasibility surveys may follow if promise is shown, with six to nine months for initial work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas Turnpike Authority
State Highway Commission
Texas
Highway Department
The
Highway Commission
Stece
Hillsboro
Interstate 45
Centerville
Dallas-Fort Worth
Houston-Beamont
Oak Cliff
Arlington
Houston
Turnpike Authority
Construction bids sought for Comanche precinct bridge
Comanche County Precinct No 2 invites bids by 9:00 A.M. March 30 1970 for 90 linear feet of concrete slab and girder bridge over the Sabine River twelve miles south of Comanche on County Road. Plans and specs available at the County Judge's Plans Office. Bridge to meet Texas Highway Dept design H15 44. County may reject any or all bids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leon
Comanche
Texas
Texas Highway Department
Why the 1970 census is being taken
The 1970 census is required by Article I of the Constitution to enumerate the population every ten years. It counts every American alive on April 1 1970 including those abroad and in U S territories. It outlines questions, methods, timing, and the cost of the census and notes two mail methods to collect data beginning in late March with results expected from May onward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. A. Flannery
Camanche Funeral Home
Flowed Elliott
Gather Elliott
U. S
U.S
Department of State
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands
Guam
American Samoa
Canal Zone
Coler
Census Bureau
Sears Family Heads to Fairfield for Computer Training
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Sears and their daughter Jada move to Fairfield Connecticut for three months while Mr. Sears attends a computer training program. He works for General Dynamics of Fort Worth and Mrs. Sears is formerly Pattie Middleton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerry Sears
Jada
Fairfield
Connecticut
Sears
General Dynamics of
Fort Worth
Pattie Middleton
Comanche Chief Weekly Adopts Broad Subscription Plan
The Comanche Chief lists editors and owners with price tiers for subscriptions. Rates start at 4.00 per year in Comanche County plus rural routes and 5.00 elsewhere in Texas. Minimum 3.00. Second class postage paid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Wilkerson
WM. B. Wilkerson
James Wilkerson
Asoc
Comanche County
Dublin
Gorman
Blanket
Carbon
May
Ishams Visit Wichita Falls and Decatur Relatives
Mr and Mrs Edward Isham and their son Mark visited their daughter and son in law Air man First Class and Mrs Jerry Brown in Wichita Falls over the weekend They also called on Mrs Ishams sister Mrs Pat Murphree and family in Decatur.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Isham
Mark
Airman
Jerry Brown
Wichita Falls
Isham
Pat Murphree
Decatur
Baytown Couple Visited Miss Brightman and Relatives
Mr. and Mrs. James C. Schiller of Baytown visited Miss Hattie Brightman and other relatives last weekend, sharing time with family members across the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James C. Schiller
Baytown
Hattie Brightman
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More Opera
Abernathy C.T.A
Wm. Stewart Caffey
Burton Caffey
Sidney
Abernathy Classroom Teachers Assn
Abernathy Community Action Progrem
Law Witness
Abernathy Methodist Church
Federal Land Bank
P. D. Hit
Jack Hill
Diane and
Linda
Alvin Holland
Dean
Mineral Wells
Tio Fairfield, Connecticut
W. Grand Comanche
Majestic Theatre
Alfonso Sansone
Henryk Chaosocki
Techniscope
United Artists
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